Show II MUROEREH OX RUM DOWN IN SALT LK U 11 1 Shot a Man r to Death in a Game of Craps = t I CAME DIRECT TO THIS CITY lI I Prepared to Make < a Desperate I Fight in His Room Loyalty to His Wife rind Children rt t Homo Led to His Capture by Detectives t I devotion to his wife and children j J which prompted him to ali < th chances of smuggling letters to them led to the apprehension In Salt Lake r of V W Fox of Beatrice Ala whl C la wanted at his home to answer to I the charge of murder J I CAUGHT ON TUB STREET Fox has been stopping in this city i about a l month under the name of A r C Wllllamp lie was arrested yest r t ujiy morning In front of the Wellr Fargo t Co hank building on Main j I street by i Detectives Norrell and Jlal i eigh and taken to tIme county jail to await the arrival of the Sheriff of Wilcox Wil-cox county Ala who Is already 1 on tho way to claim the prisoner When tnken by the detectives yesterday Fot at first denied that he was the man wanted You are mistaken he said i my name is Williams and I have committed i j com-mitted no crime I U TIE BROKE DOWN 1 lie was hurried Into a hack and f i driven to the Jiiil and on the way thcr K i i he broke down and confessed L Its no use to keqp this up any longer said he I am the man you want all right and I might as welt make up my mind to face the musk ° although It probably means A term hi the pen for me T thought T was shooting j shoot-ing a man In eelfdofouse but roalz 1 ijii t I xmdej the elrcuimitnnces It will b I > m IHu1 to make a jut y believe It 4 FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE Fox Is an Intelligent Southerner Ti s ycaia old who has the appearance of 1 a welltodo business man At hi I Alabama home he was engaged in tlv turnenllnc liuluatrv when the trouble l came up which caused him to leave his family and nil behind and become a fugitive from Justice or from the law at least with a large reward hanging over his head STORY OF THE CRIME jm It was last Fourth of July when the crime was committed Fox accompanied accom-panied by his wife and child was on a train returning home from n picnic excursion m 3 ex-cursion when he Joined a J number of other men in the baggage car of the train where there was a supply of blind tiger whiskey The men drank Ill quite heavily and several of them also engaged In shooting craps Fox and a man named Stewart were among those thus engaged when a dispute j arose between them over I tho making of change to settle gambling difference differ-ence Fox and i Stewart were total strangers but some added bitterness 1 was doubtless given the dispute hi the fact that they were residents of It adjoining counties between which old 4L feuds existed Stouait called IJox a name which usually lends to desperate action on Much occasions and also ac companied words Fox claims with a movement of the hand toward the u hip pocket as though to tetra a gun Fox then drew his own gun and shot Stewart but did not alt to learn the t effect of the shot From a hiding i place not fnr away he saw men carrying carry-ing his late antagonist from the train but he knuv not whether he was dead or only seriously wounded CAME TO SALT LAKE Securing a horse Fox rode 150 miles through as sparsely a nettled portion of the country as he could find not daring to take u train until life had f crossed the line of his own State and rode i some distance Into Mississippi He then came almost directly to thin city arriving here on August 12 All I this time he as lit the most terrible terri-ble suspense not knowing whether the man he had shot had lived or died Soon after coming here however he learned that Stewart had died and then I Increased remorse and fear of appre lieiinlon together with worry over tho situation of his family made his existence ex-istence one of continuous torment 1 WROTE TO HIS WIFE Fox found work hero as carpenter which helped to occupy his mind and through frkMidn at homo he soon opened communication with hIs wife It wan through the letters thus sent and received re-ceived by 1 him that the detectives din covered that he was 111 thlK city and time matter of lorn ing him then became comparatl easy I Detectives Nonrll and Raleigh arrompllshed this within a week after the mans arrival here an 1 he bus been tinder surveillance ovr since But tjierc were name prcllml n rliR to be fir ranged with the Alabama authorities including the matter of the reward to IMJ I paid for Foxs capture and it was net until Wednesday nigh when the defectives learned that Pox wax preparing to go to EvamUon Wyo that l hey I iclded to take no further ehnrces of his getting away from them Vhen told by ho I oinrorsxye8lcrday that they had thought of going lo hIli TOOth TOO-th night before to arrest him Foxa only reply wm > 4 MIGHT HAVE BJ3EN1 SORRY I am glad you didnt boys J should It have been very sorry to have killed any more men In Foxs room In Mr Whites terrace fcf Continued on Pago 2 I oj r IOWM Continued from Page 1 S itI at the corner of Third South and Second ihm Wccl streets the detectives found irj Winchester line and a Colts revolver both fully loaded showing that the man was prepared for a visit of officers of tt the law and It la believed that he would have sold his life dearly had an attempt been made 10 take him there As it was he was taken wholly by surprise arid mnst wis unarmed IN WHICH COUTY A question of Jurisdiction has arisd 0 which may cause some friction betweu the authorities of the counties of Wiled and Monroe the crime having beeic committed on the train not far from line between those two Alabazat ifs counties nnI a difference of opinion cijy isting among witnesses who were on tti train as to the county In which the faUr shot was actually fired While the zv rest of Fox by the detectives was ma ea at the Instance of the Sheriff of Wllca i county yet at the same time Actii Chief of Police Burbldgo was In COEJ i municatlon with the Sheriff of Monittj tofe county In regard to effecting the czfj feUs tun and doubtless would have had tL Us Usrt man in a very short time had r5 < < rtGJ the detectives decided upon an early arrest GJt ar-rest Fox would much prefer belS GJHe triad In Monroe which Is his hoiH He county while ihc dead man lived in WI cox He fears that Stewarts formS neighbors will take little heed of hli f Plea of supiosed selfdefense m weapon having been found on Stewart i after the shooting Detectives Norrell and Raleigh will receive re-ceive 400 for their clever work In running run-ning down the man |